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[327a]

Socrates
I1 went down yesterday to the Peiraeus2
with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotions3 to the Goddess,4 and also
because I wished to see how they would conduct the festival since this was
its inauguration.5 I
thought the procession of the citizens very fine, but it was no better than
the show, made by the marching of the Thracian contingent.

1 Socrates narrates in the first person, as
in the Charmides and Lysis; see
Introduction p. vii, Hirzel, Der Dialog, i. p. 84.
Demetrius, On Style, 205, cites this sentence as an
example of “trimeter members.” Editors give
references for the anecdote that it was found in Plato's tablets with many variations.
For Plato's description of such painstaking Cf. Phaedrus
278 D. Cicero De sen.. 5. 13 “scribens est
mortuus.”

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